The Black National Anthem — “Lift Every Voice and Sing” — is a hymn written as a poem by then-NAACP leader James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) in 1900. His brother John Rosamond Johnson (1873-1954), ...

Singer Ledisi performed "Lift Every Voice and Sing," which is widely known as the Black national anthem, at the start of the 2025 Super Bowl on Sunday. "Lift Every Voice and Sing" has a short ...

Then Moses and the people of Israel sang this song to the LORD: ‘I will sing to the LORD, for he has triumphed gloriously; he ...

How far and how wide Lift Every Voice and Sing resonated was a surprise to its creator. James Weldon Johnson wrote in his ...

Why a Black National Anthem? For white racists to say that there should be one national anthem, I say no to their argument. There is nothing wrong with having more than one national anthem. There was ...

Every morning, the kids at the Johnson Learning Center stand up and sing “Lift Every Voice and Sing.” Andrew Young, some 70 years their senior, smiles at the image. It is the same thing he did ...

Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing,” a song often called the Black national anthem, was sung before the Super Bowl for the fifth year ...

The Grammy winner’s live interpretation marks the fifth time the Black national anthem has been performed at the big game.

Big things, like the annexation of Greenland. Little things — like a song. "Lift Every Voice and Sing," celebrating its 125th anniversary on Feb. 12, is one of only about 20 million flashpoints ...

As an actress, Ledisi appeared in George Clooney’s 2008 movie “Leatherheads,” played Mahalia Jackson in Ava DuVernay’s Oscar-nominated film, “Selma” and performed on B ...

While "Lift Every Voice and Sing" was not the only song played before "The Star Spangled Banner" on Sunday, many on social media singled out the hymn for criticism, claiming ...

Ledisi performed a powerful rendition of "Lift Every Voice and Sing" at the 2025 Super Bowl in New Orleans' Caesar Superdome on Sunday, Feb. 9.